Friday, November 30, 2018
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Friday, November 9, 2018
Week 11: Nov. 10, 2018
It's been since week 7 (a whole month ago!) that the Ducks wore any color. The last 3 weeks have been 2 road games with mono-white and a home game with mono-black. This week brings us the third time Oregon has worn this combo this season.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Week 10: Nov. 3, 2018
Last week we saw our first "minor" mix/match mono. This week the Ducks are back to full mono, but with a twist. Its a Nike Jordan Jumpman uniform with different number font, different shade of green (we had apple, neon and now forest?) and Jordan's elephant skin pattern (??) sublimated on white numbers.
WARNING: OPINION AHEAD....I'll be honest that I'm just not clear on the concept with this set? The one thing they have going for them is that they're not some wild, unusual, crazy concept. They are kinda boring, and only a logo/font away from the normal black set. But that is also their downfall. What is their hook here? This week is usually the week that teams wrap themselves in the flag for Veteran's Day and "Salute to Service" types of things. But the Ducks are saluting an—albeit great/famous—basketball star who has no connection to Oregon except that he is a brand ambassador for the hometown Nike? I love what Nike has done for UO, but just don't get the timing since this must have been planned for months/years? I'm not bagging on uniforms because of the W/L record since these are planned way in advance.
The Ducks have had some great alternate uniforms but more often some horrible ones ("Grellow" helmet, Lewis and Clark, State flag...) I would not lump this in with those, but these seem to fall into the category of the uniforms they wore last year for the childhood cancer game, which were variations of the normal uniform, but not special.
WARNING: OPINION AHEAD....I'll be honest that I'm just not clear on the concept with this set? The one thing they have going for them is that they're not some wild, unusual, crazy concept. They are kinda boring, and only a logo/font away from the normal black set. But that is also their downfall. What is their hook here? This week is usually the week that teams wrap themselves in the flag for Veteran's Day and "Salute to Service" types of things. But the Ducks are saluting an—albeit great/famous—basketball star who has no connection to Oregon except that he is a brand ambassador for the hometown Nike? I love what Nike has done for UO, but just don't get the timing since this must have been planned for months/years? I'm not bagging on uniforms because of the W/L record since these are planned way in advance.
The Ducks have had some great alternate uniforms but more often some horrible ones ("Grellow" helmet, Lewis and Clark, State flag...) I would not lump this in with those, but these seem to fall into the category of the uniforms they wore last year for the childhood cancer game, which were variations of the normal uniform, but not special.
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